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The Reconstruction Era Klan As an Employer Association

 Author: Patrick Young  Published Date: July 27, 2021  Leave a Comment on The Reconstruction Era Klan As an Employer Association

Chad Pearson, a professor of history at Collin College in Texas, has an article in Jacobin on the importance of the Ku Klux Klan to…

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Virginia: Failed Attempt to Replace “Worthless Negroes” with Immigrant Laborers in 1868

 Author: Patrick Young  Published Date: August 3, 2019  Leave a Comment on Virginia: Failed Attempt to Replace “Worthless Negroes” with Immigrant Laborers in 1868

After the Civil War, there were various unsuccessful schemes to import European immigrants to the South. White employers hoped to fill labor shortages created when…

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